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50 Cent ordered to pay another $2 million in sex tape case

By | Published on Monday 27 July 2015

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A New York jury last week ordered 50 Cent to pay another $2 million in punitive damages to the woman whose privacy he violated via a sex tape leak.

As previously reported, earlier this month a court ordered Fiddy to pay Lastonia Leviston $5 million in damages, after he put a sex tape in which she appeared online without her permission. The court heard that the leaking of the tape was part of the rapper’s ongoing feud with Rick Ross, who didn’t appear in the clip, but who has a child with Leviston.

Having handed down the initial $5 million in damages, the court requested to see an overview of 50 Cent’s financial affairs to see if additional punitive damages should be applied too. It was at this point that the rapper applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a move that would normally put all and any matters involving his finances on hold.

But lawyers for Leviston requested that their client’s case not be held up by the bankruptcy proceedings – presumably suspecting that Fiddy had applied for Chapter 11 deliberately to delay or hinder the punitive damages from being calculated – and the bankruptcy courts complied with that request.

And so the case continued last week, with jurors deciding on Friday that an additional $2 million in damages should be applied. Which is another win for Leviston, though her lawyers had been pushing for $15 million, while 50 Cent’s legal reps argued $700,000 was more reasonable.

Any appeals pending, with this case resolved it remains to be seen what happens to 50 Cent’s bankruptcy.



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